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Dirección General de Turismo (Mexico)
Mexico: The Great Metropoliscirca 1950

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Vintage travel poster with aerial illustration of Mexico City at night, radiating boulevards, landmark monuments, and snow-capped volcanoes in the distance
Made for
Dirección General de Turismo (Mexico)
Title
Mexico: The Great Metropolis
Date Made
circa 1950
Medium
Offset lithography
Dimensions
36 3/4 × 25 9/16 in. (93.35 × 64.93 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Council Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.2016.89.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.

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